Henry IV, Part I (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Shakespeare
- First Published: 1598
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1403
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: Henry IV, Prince Hal, Henry Percy, Sr., Henry Percy, Jr., Thomas Percy, Edmund Mortimer, Owen Glendower, Sir John Falstaff
- Genres: Drama, History play
- Subjects: England or English people, Death or dying, Kings, queens, or royalty, Fifteenth century, Knights or knighthood, Heads of state, Princes or princesses, Braggarts
- Locales: England
The Story:
After he forced the anointed king, Richard II, to relinquish his crown, Henry Bullingbrook became King of England in 1399 as Henry IV. Within only a few years Henry IV himself began to face challenges to his kingship when the nobles who had supported him against Richard II began to defy the new king and aspire to the throne. Henry Percy, Jr., or Hotspur, defeated, on behalf of Henry IV, the invading army of Douglas of Scotland in northern England, but Hotspur then refused to subordinate himself to the king’s authority and turn his Scottish prisoners over to the...
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